Geoana, M. (2012, August 2). Bringing Romania back from the brink. The New York Times. Op-ed written by a Romanian senator, its ambassador to the U.S., its foreign minister and a presidential candidate in 2009.

October 30, 1918. Rescue castoffs of war at Harbin. 1,055 Serbian and Montenegrin refugees had been in box cars since Feb. 19. Started to circle world. Starving, cold, and almost forgotten, they found help at last from Americans.

November 14, 1918. Siberia needs medical stores. Doctors there helpless because of lack of drugs and ordinary bandages. Typhus epidemic rages. No co-ordination among the various American relief organizations in Russia. Prince Lvoff in America.

December 22, 1918. An “Amerikansky” in Siberia. Food abundant there while Russia starves. Vast, unexplored wealth amazes the foreigner.

December 25, 1918. Believed 25,000,000 joined Red Cross. War Council compiling final figures of members gained in Christmas roll call. Borough enrolls 400,000. Manhattan increased from 285,000 last year – Brooklyn over 150,000 and hopes for 250,000.

January 26, 1919. Three ships bring 4,000 troops home. Transports Atenas and Maul and French liner Rochambeau arrive here. 1,000 given shore leave. Surgeon says that only 110 American soldiers were blinded in war.

June 29, 1919. Finds Serbia’s need world’s greatest. Col. Folks says nation has nothing left after war but her soil and that depleted. Her man-power destroyed. Even her spirit menaced by Bolshevism. Organized aid of civilization called upon.

August 11, 1919. Balkans owe much to Red Cross aid. Lieut. Col. Anderson, in charge of relief work, says conditions are improved. People no longer starve. Hospitals, where patients formerly died for lack of supplies, now well equipped.